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Ubuntu 14.04 Looks Toward Qt 5.2, Qt Mir In 14.10

11-20-2013, 10:30 AM

Phoronix: Ubuntu 14.04 Looks Toward Qt 5.2, Qt Mir In 14.10

Ubuntu 13.10 shipped with Qt 5.0 instead of Qt 5.1, since while it was available for months prior there were some "unfixed regressions" in the newer tool-kit release. With Qt 5.2 being right around the corner, Canonical is looking to switch to the newer open-source tool-kit release if there isn't as much fallout...

Ubuntu 13.10 shipped with Qt 5.0 instead of Qt 5.1, since while it was available for months prior there were some "unfixed regressions" in the newer tool-kit release. With Qt 5.2 being right around the corner, Canonical is looking to switch to the newer open-source tool-kit release if there isn't as much fallout...

The problem isn't the toolkit, but the lack of standards and application development being ruined by toolkits. You develop software on one toolkit, then you are trapped by their ways (and it seems difficult to separate GUI from the rest of the code in toolkits like Qt).

Both KDE and Gnome projects are tainted by seldom attitudes, but other DE suffer the same problem too.

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let's get the fact: gnome is controlled by Red Hat behind the curtin
kde is more independent then red hat's DE
kde uses Qt which is a full framework; GTK is a simple tk and it is useless without gnome controlled libraries (GLib, GFVS,GIO, etc)

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Both, Canonical's stack and Qt, are licensed GPL and LGPL. I guess you wouldn't call that unfree licenses, would you? Also, how do you think Canonical or Digia could close down (L)GPL licensed software?
Once again you are talking out of your ass, without any expertise on the topic you chose to post about. Do for one time something useful and help in the development of [INSERT FAVORITE FOSS PROJECT HERE] instead of annoying people on Phoronix with your shit.